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New comment by vankap in "AWS mistakes to avoid"

vankap — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:31:01 +0000

Create the infrastructure manually and then use Cloudformer tool to generate the template based on the already created infrastructure. You can then edit the generated template to make it more maintainable and you have a nice reusable template.

New comment by vankap in ""Free Basics" - Myths and Facts"

vankap — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:28:59 +0000

I can't say how this turns out, but it makes me happy to see the debate this is generating. A lot of people who have never heard of net neutrality are now hearing and thinking about it. That's a definite positive for India and and open internet.

New comment by vankap in "Which degrees give the best financial returns?"

vankap — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 06:37:51 +0000

BYU does produce some really good CS grads though :)

New comment by vankap in "Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics"

vankap — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 04:03:01 +0000

This is deception. Pure and simple. There are many different and ethical ways of providing connectivity to the poor but not at the cost of losing net neutrality.

New comment by vankap in "Court orders Google to pay $115k damages for defamatory search engine results"

vankap — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:16:39 +0000

Ripoff Report should have been sued here instead of Google.

New comment by vankap in "Indian Regulator Temporarily Suspends Facebook’s Free Basics"

vankap — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:20:46 +0000

Absolutely not. This adversely affects the budding start up industry in India. If Zuckerberg really wants to help poor Indians, then provide access to the entire internet and let them figure out which service helps them out best.

As a compromise, free access to only non-commercial non-profit entities/websites that offer beneficial information is acceptable although not ideal.

New comment by vankap in "SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]"

vankap — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:56:46 +0000

Congratulations to everyone at SpaceX. This is a proud moment for all of you. And thank you for giving us the chance to watch this LIVE.

New comment by vankap in "JetBrains redesigned their website and logos"

vankap — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:52:31 +0000

Not a big fan of all the marketing language on the home page. But it does get better on the individual IDE pages. You see the download link right away and you can scroll down if you need more info.

New comment by vankap in "Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion"

vankap — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:19:48 +0000

You are a huge inspiration. Thank you sir.

New comment by vankap in "Codefights"

vankap — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:10:27 +0000

This is very nice. More engrossing than most games I play. Instead of starting over every time I lose, I would prefer if I was penalized and allowed to continue playing. For instance, if I lose round 5, then I will also lose all the points from round 4 and continue playing from round 4 instead. It's just something that I thought would make it more interesting and playable for me.

New comment by vankap in "Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone models from Apple"

vankap — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:58:04 +0000

I believe both sides have valid arguments depending on who you think the threat is. If you expect complete control over your data then you would want the system to be open source and transparent. To protect an average smartphone user from malicious apps, a closed and curated system like Apple's appstore makes sense.

New comment by vankap in "Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S"

vankap — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:44:05 +0000

If I'm using my fingerprint to protect something, it must be way more valuable than the fingerprint itself. It's like using a key made of gold to protect a box full of rocks.

New comment by vankap in "Why My Father Hated India"

vankap — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:13:45 +0000

Hyderabad state had Muslim rulers but not a Muslim majority.

New comment by vankap in "I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest."

vankap — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:23:46 +0000

Note: I have never come across such sizes for salt and block though. I may be totally off.

New comment by vankap in "I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest."

vankap — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:19:03 +0000

I am working on the assumption that the first few chars could be a randomly generated salt and the rest is equal sized blocks of encrypted content. The random salt results in a different encoding each time.

This is what I have so far and it seems to fit the original encoded message too.

The salt is the first 29 chars.

Each encrypted block is 59 chars.

So for the QBFs : 29 + 6x59

For the original message : 29 + 5x59

New comment by vankap in "I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest."

vankap — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:32:05 +0000

383 is prime. So it can't be a substitution cipher.

New comment by vankap in "I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest."

vankap — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:05:30 +0000

I wish I knew. I'm a python guy.

New comment by vankap in "I was forced to write a blog post. So I made a code breaking contest."

vankap — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:59:36 +0000

apparently it's ruby..

New comment by vankap in "ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)"

vankap — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:59:53 +0000

This would be very useful for those who work on a netbook or a thin client. Besides, people do use Google Docs even though they have a full fledged document editing software on their machines.

New comment by vankap in "German Brute Forces SHA1 in 49 Minutes for $2 "

vankap — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:23:49 +0000

Switching to one of the SHA-2 hashes should be good enough till SHA-3 is selected.